Re: [Tracker] probem with finding filenames

[Jamie McCracken <jamiemcc blueyonder co uk>]

On Thu, 2008-01-24 at 11:59 +0100, gebi fastmail fm wrote:
> please have a look:
>
> gebi kepler:~$ touch ayxcvbn.txt
> gebi kepler:~$ tracker-search ayxcv
>
> -> no results when searching for a partial file-name ?!
>
> gebi kepler:~$ tracker-search ayxcvbn
> /home/gebi/ayxcvbn.txt
>
> fine -- works with a full file-name without extension.
>
> now make a new filename - the same as above but with an underscore:
>
> gebi kepler:~$ touch ayxcvbn_go.txt
> gebi kepler:~$ tracker-search ayxcvbn
> /home/gebi/ayxcvbn.txt
> /home/gebi/ayxcvbn_go.txt
>
> now I got all results !
>
> gebi kepler:~$ tracker-search ayxcvb
>
> but for a partial filename -> no results but for 
>
> a "full" part of a filename it works:
>
> gebi kepler:~$ tracker-search ayxcvbn
> /home/gebi/ayxcvbn.txt
> /home/gebi/ayxcvbn_go.txt
>
>
> any hints ?
> I think searching for filenames should have a similar behavior as locate
> which searchs for  "*file*"
> in this way it could be an "always up to date replacement" for locate
> and an essential behavior when used in a filemanager.
>
>
> I'm using tracker 0.6.4

wildcard suport is on the way so you will be able to search for abc* for
everything and not just filenames

for an app thats only interested in filenames then you can already do
these wildcard searches (using tracker-query)

jamie